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State  Board  of  Ageicultfee 

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Incorporated  Agricultural  Societies, 


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By-Laws    of    the    Board    of    Agriculture,  and  Rules 

and   Recommendations  of  the  Board  for  the 

Agricultural  Societies  which  draw 

State  Bounty. 


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Office  op  State  Board  of  Agriculture, 
Boston,  March  21,  1894. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture, 
held  in  Boston,  February  6,  7  and  8,  1894,  the  following 
vote  was  passed  :  — 

Voted,  That  the  laws  relating  to  the  Board  of  Agriculture  and 
agricultural  societies  be  compiled  and  codified  by  the  secretary, 
and  printed  with  the  By-Laws  in  the  "  Agriculture  of  Massa- 
chusetts"  and  in  pamphlet  form. 

In  conformity  to  this  vote,  this  pamphlet  has  been  pre- 
pared for  the  convenience  of  parties  interested. 

WILLIAM   R.  SESSIONS, 

Secretai'y. 


STATUTES  RELATING    TO   THE  STATE    BOARD    OF 
AGRICULTURE. 


PUBLIC  STATUTES. —CHAPTER  20. 


Section 

1.  Board,  how  constituted. 

2.  Tenure    of    office    of    members.      Va- 
cancies, how  filled. 

3.  Where    and    how    often    to    meet;    to 
receive  no  compensation. 

4.  Secretary    and     clerk     and     their    sal- 
aries. 

5.  Board     to     be     overseers     of    agricul- 
tural college. 


INDEX. 

Section 

6.  Board  to  investigate  subjects  relat- 
ing to  agriculture,  fake  donations, 
etc. 

7.  to  fix  days  for  annual  meetings  of 
agricultural  societies,  etc. 

8.  to  report  to  general  court. 

9.  Secretary  to  publish  abstracts,  etc. 
10.        may  appoint  agents. 


Section  1.      The    governor,    lieutenaut-o;overnor  and   Board,  how 

^  '  ^  constituted. 

secretary  of  the  commonwealth,  the  president  of  the  aori-   ^-  S- 16,  §  i, 

•^  '  '  »  1866,  263,  §  3. 

cultural  college,  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  agriculture,  i894,  i44. 
one  person  appointed  from  and  by  the  Massachusetts 
society  for  promoting  agriculture,  one  person  appointed 
from  and  by  each  agricultural  society  which  receives  an 
annual  bounty  from  the  commonwealth,  and  three  other 
persons  appointed  by  the  governor  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  council,  shall  constitute  the  state  board  of 
agriculture. 

(Section  4  of  chapter  20G  of  the  Acts  of  1874  provides 
that  "  the  chemist  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  shall 
be  ex  officio  a  member  of  said  board  and  state  inspector  of 
fertilizers.") 

Sect.  2.     One-third  of  the  appointed  members  of  said   Tenure  of 

office  of  mem- 
board  shall  retire   from  office  on   the   first  Wednesday  of   I'ers. 

"^  Vacancies, 

February  in  each  year,  according  to  their  appointments,   how  filled. 

Gr.  fcj.  16,  §  2« 

The  vacancies  thus  occurring  shall  be  filled  by  the 
governor  and  council,  or'  by  the  agricultural  societies,  as 
the  offices  were  before  filled,  and  the  persons  thus  appointed 
shall  hold  their  offices  for  three  years  from  the  expiration 
of  the  former  terms.  Other  vacancies  may  be  filled  in 
the  same  manner  for  the  remainder  of  the  vacant  terms. 

Sect.  3.     The  board  shall  meet  at  the  state  house  or  at  where  and 
the  agricultural  college  at  least  once  in  each  year,  and  as   meet. 
much  oftener  as  may  be  deemed  expedient.     No  member  To  receive  no 

n         .J    ,  ,       ,      ,,  .  i.'  i-  ii  compensation. 

of  said  board  shall  receive  compensation  from  the  com-  as.  le,  §3. 
mouwealth  except  for  personal  expenses  when  engaged  in  >-  •§  • 
the  duties  of  the  board. 


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Secneiarv  luid 


Board  lobe 
overseers  of 
aericalmni 
colleee. 
1896, 263,  5  1- 


to  investi- 
gate eobjects 
relaiine  to 
afnieoltnre, 
take  dona- 
tioDs,  etc. 
G.  S.  16,  J  5. 


Board  to  fix 
days  for  an- 
Binl  meem^s 
of  a^friealtnral 
societies,  etc. 
G.S.16.  §6, 
l«d5,  ISS,  §  3. 


to  report  to 
general  court. 
G.S  16.  f  7. 


Secretary  to 
pnbBA 
abetrarts,  etc 
G.  S.  16,  §  8, 


may  appoint 
G.S.  16.  §9. 


Sect.  4.  The  board  may  appoint  and  prescribe  the 
duties  of  a  secretary,  who  shall  receive  a  salary  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  dollars  a  year :  and  who,  at  such  times  as 
the  board  shall  approve,  may  employ  a  first  clerk  at  a  sal- 
ary of  sixteen  hundred  dollars  a  year,  an  assistant  clerk 
at  a  salary  of  twelve  hundred  dollars  a  year,  and  may 
expend  for  other  clerical  services  in  his  office,  and  for 
lectures  to  be  given  before  the  board  of  agriculture  at  its 
annual  and  other  meetings,  a  sum  not  exceeding  eight 
hundred  dollars. 

Sect.  5.  The  board  shall  be  a  board  of  overseers  of 
the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College,  with  powers  and 
duries  to  be  defined  and  fixed  by  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil, but  such  powers  shall  not  control  the  action  of  the 
trustees  of  said  college,  or  negative  their  powers  and 
duties  as  defined  by  chapter  two  hundred  and  twenty  of 
the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three. 

Sect.  6.  The  board  shall  investigate  such  subjects 
relating  to  improvement  in  agriculture  in  this  common- 
wealth as  they  may  think  proper,  and  may  take,  hold  in 
trust,  and  exercise  control  over  donations  or  bequests 
made  to  them  for  promoting  agricultural  education  or  the 
general  interests  of  husbandry. 

Sect.  7.  They  may  fix  the  days  on  which  the  different 
agricultural  societies  shall  commence  their  exhibitions, 
and  may  prescribe  forms  for  and  regulate  the  returns 
required  of  said  societies,  and  shall  furnish  to  the  secre- 
tary of  each  society  such  blanks  as  they  may  deem  neces- 
sary to  secure  uniform  and  reliable  statistics. 

Sect.  8.  They  shall  annually,  on  or  before  the  fourth 
Wednesday  of  January,  by  their  chairman  or  secretary, 
submit  to  the  general  court  a  detailed  report  of  their 
doings,  with  such  recommendations  and  suggestions  as  the 
interests  of  agriculture  may  require. 

Sect.  9.  The  secretary  of  the  board  shall  in  each  year 
cause  to  be  made  and  published  for  distribution  as  full  an 
abstract  of  the  returns  of  the  agricultural  societies  as  he 
may  deem  useful. 

Sect.  10.  He  may  appoint  one  or  more  suitable  agents 
to  visit,  under  the  direction  of  the  board,  the  towns  in  the 
commonwealth  for  the  purpose  of  inquiring  into  the  meth- 
ods and  wants  of  practical  husbandry ;  of  ascertaining  the 
adaptation  of  agricultural  products  to  soil,  climate,  and 
markets  ;  of  encouraging  the  establishment  of  farmers' 


clubs,  agricultural  libraries,  and  reading-rooms  ;  and  of 
disseminating  useful  information  in  agriculture  by  means 
of  lectures  or  otherwise  ;  and  such  agents  shall  annually 
in  October  make  to  the  secretary  detailed  reports. 


An  Act  to  provide  for  the  Protection  of  Dairy  Products  and 
to  establish  a  State  Dairy  Bureau. 

[Chap.  412,  Acts  of  1S91.] 

Section'  1.     Whoever  sells  or  offers  for  sale,  to  any  Saie  of  butter 

-     "      regulated. 

person  who  asks,  sends  or  inquires  for  butter,  any  oleo- 
margarine, butterine  or  any  substance  made  in  imitation 
of  or  semblance  of  pure  butter,  not  made  entirely  from 
the  milk  of  cows,  with  or  without  coloring  matter,  shall 
be  declared  guilty  of  fraud  and  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Sect.  2.     Whoever   exposes    for    sale   oleomargarine,   oieomarga- 

,     .      .      .        .  \.i  rine,  etc., 

butterine  or  any  substance  made  in  imitation  or  semblance   packages  to 
of  pure  butter,  not  marked  and  distinguished  by  all  the   marked  when 
marks,  words  and  stamps  required  by  existing  laws,  and  gaie.^ 
not  having  in  addition  thereto  upon  every  opened  tub, 
package  or  parcel  thereof  a  placard  with  the  word  "  oleo- 
margarine" printed  thereon  in  plain,  uncondensed  gothic 
letters,  not  less  than  one  inch  long,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Sect.  3.     Whoever   sells  oleomargarine,    butterine    or  Penalty  for 

selling  the 

any  other  substance  made  in  imitation  or  semblance  of  same  nn- 

marked. 

pure  butter,  from  any  dwelling,  store,  otiice  or  public  mart 
shall  have  conspicuously  posted  thereon  the  placard  or 
sign,  in  letters  not  less  than  four  inches  in  length,  "  oleo- 
margarine sold  here,"  or  "  butterine  sold  here,"  said 
placard  to  be  approved  by  the  bureau  hereinafter  provided 
for  by  this  act.  Any  person  neglecting  or  failing  to  post 
the  placard  herein  provided  for  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  first  offence 
and  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  day's  neglect  thereafter. 

Sect.  4.     Whoever  peddles,  sells  or  delivers  from  anv  Wagons  to  be 

"      marked  "  li- 

cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle,  upon  the  public  streets  or   censed  to  sell 

.  .  -      .        oleomarga- 

ways,  oleomargarine,  butterine  or  any  substance  made  in  rine." 
imitation  or  semblance  of  pure  butter,  not  having  on  both 
sides  of  said  cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle  the  placard  in 
uncondensed  gothic  letters,  not  less  than  three  inches  in 
length,  "  licensed  to  sell  oleomargarine,"  shall  be  pun- 


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Quests  at 
hotels,  etc., 
to  be  notified 
when  9uii- 
Btauce  served 
is  not  butter. 


AsBiatant  to 
the  secretary 
of  the  board 
of  agriculture 
to  be  ap- 
pointed. 


Term  of  office. 


Three  mem- 
bers of  the 
board  of  agri- 
culture to 
constitute  a 
dairy  bureau. 


Executive 
officer. 


ished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars  or 
imprisonment  for  not  less  than  thirty  days  for  each 
offence. 

Sect.  5.  Whoever  furnishes,  or  causes  to  be  fur- 
nished, in  any  hotel,  restaurant  or  at  any  lunch  counter, 
oleomargarine  or  butterine  to  any  guest  or  patron  of  siTch 
hotel,  restaurant  or  lunch  counter,  in  the  place  or  stead  of 
butter  shall  notify  said  guest  or  patron  that  the  substance 
so  furnished  is  not  butter,  and  any  party  so  furnishing 
without  such  notice  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Sect.  6.  The  governor,  by  and  with  the  consent  of 
the  council,  shall  appoint  an  assistant  to  the  secretai-y  of 
the  board  of  agriculture,  at  an  annual  salary  of  twelve 
hundred  dollars,  and  expenses  necessarily  incurred  in  the 
discharge  of  his  duties,  to  assist  in  the  work  prescribed 
in  the  eleventh  section  of  this  act.  Said  appointee  shall 
hold  office  for  two  years  or  till  his  successor  is  appointed, 
unless  sooner  removed  from  office  by  the  governor,  and 
his  successor  shall  be  appointed  as  above  provided  for. 

Sect.  7.  In  order  to  secure  the  better  enforcement 
of  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  to  promote  the 
improvement  of  the  products  of  the  dairy,  the  governor, 
b}'  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  shall 
appoint  three  members  of  the  board  of  agriculture,  to  con- 
stitute a  dairy  bureau  of  said  board,  one  to  serve  for 
three  years,  one  for  two  years  and  one  for  one  year  from 
the  first  day  of  July  in  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-one,  or  for  such  shorter  terras  respectively  as  they 
may  continue  to  be  members  of  said  board  of  agriculture  ; 
and,  prior  to  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  succeeding 
year,  the  governor  shall  appoint  from  said  board  one 
member  of  said  bureau  to  serve  for  three  j^ears  or  for 
such  shorter  term,  as  aforesaid  No  person  shall  continue 
to  be  a  member  of  said  bureau  after  he  has  ceased  to  be 
a  member  of  said  board,  but,  on  his  ceasing  to  be  a  mem- 
ber of  said  board,  his  place  on  said  bureau  shall  be  filled 
by  the  appointment  of  another  member  of  said  board,  as 
aforesaid.  The  secretary  of  said  board  shall  be  the 
executive  ofl^icer  of  said  bureau  subject  to  its  control  and 
direction,  and  said  secretary  shall,  upon  assuming  said 
duties,  receive,  in  addition  to  his  present  salary,  five  huu- 
di'ed  dollars  per  anuum.  The  governor  may  at  any  time 
terruinate  the  service  of  any  member  of  said  board  as  a 


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member  of  said  bureau  aud  may  appoint  any  other  mem- 
ber of  said  board  in  liis  place,  as  above  provided.  Mem- 
bers of  said  bureau  shall  serve  without  pay  and  shall 
have  power  to  enforce  all  laws  relating  to  dairy  products 
and  imitations  thereof,  and  to  employ  such  agents,  assist- 
ants, experts,  chemists  or  counsel  as  may  be  necessary 
therefor.  Said  bureau,  in  the  discharge  of  its  duties,  shall 
be  subject  to  the  general  direction  aud  control  of  the 
board  of  agriculture. 

Sect.  8.  The  bureau  may  expend  a  sura  not  exceeding- 
four  thousand  dollars  in  carrying  forward  the  work  of  the 
bureau,  and  shall  make  annual  reports  in  detail  to  the 
legislature,  not  later  than  the  fifteenth  day  of  January  in 
each  year,  of  the  number  of  assistants,  experts,  chemists, 
agents  and  counsel  employed,  and  their  expenses  and  dis- 
bursements, with  such  other  information  as  shall  be  for 
the  advantage  of  the  dairy  interests  in  the  state,  and  they 
shall  make  full  reports  of  all  investigations  made  by  them 
with  all  cases  prosecuted  and  the  results  of  such  prosecu- 
tion. They  shall  make  detailed  statements  of  the  said 
expenses  to  the  auditor  of  the  Commonwealth,  on  which 
payment  shall  be  made  to  the  extent  of  the  appropriation. 

Sect.  9.  Said  bureau  aud  such  agents  and  couusel  as 
they  shall  duly  authorize  for  that  purpose  shall  have 
access,  ingress  and  egress  to  and  from  all  places  of  busi- 
ness, factories,  buildings,  carriages  and  cars,  used  in  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  any  dairy  products,  or  imitation 
dairy  products,  and  shall  have  access  to  all  vessels  and 
cans  used  in  such  manufacture  and  sale,  and  shall  have 
all  the  authority  given  by  law  to  the  state  board  of  health 
and  any  officer  thereof,  and  to  the  milk  inspectors,  in  the 
enforcement  of  all  laws  relating  to  dairy  products  or  imi- 
tations thereof,  and  in  the  prosecutions  of  violations  of 
said  laws. 

Sect.  10.  The  said  bureau  may  work  in  unison  with 
the  state  board  of  health,  and  with  inspectors  of  milk,  but 
they  shall  not  restrict,  limit  or  interfere  with  the  duties  of 
said  officers.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  held  to 
circumscribe  the  rights  of  said  bureau  in  the  prosecution 
of  offenders  of  the  so-called  dairy  laws,  or  all  laws  relating 
to  milk,  butter,  cheese  or  any  adulterations  or  imitations 
thereof,  wherever  found  within  the  Commonwealth. 

Sect.  11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  bureau  to 
investigate  all  dairy  products  and  imitation  dairy  products 


Members  of 
bureau  to 
serve  without 
pay;  powers, 
etc 

(See  Acts 
1892,  chap. 
139.) 


May  expend 
not  exceeding 
$4,000;  re- 
ports. 


To  make  de- 
tailed state- 
ments of 
expense^  to 
the  auditor  of 
the  Common- 
wealth. 

To  have  ac- 
cess, etc.,  to 
places  where 
dairy  products 
are  sold,  etc. 


May  work  in 
unison  with 
state  board  of 
health  and  in- 
spectors of 
milk,  etc. 


To  investigate 
dairy  products 
and  imitation 


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dairy  prod- 
ucts, etc. 


Fines  payable 
to  llie  treas- 
ury. 

To  take  effect 
Sept.  1,  1891. 


bought  or  sold  within  the  Commonwealth  ;  to  enforce  all 
laws  for  the  manufacture,  transfer  and  sale  of  all  dairy 
products  and  all  imitation  dairy  products  within  the  Com- 
monwealth, with  all  the  powers  needed  for  the  same  ;  to 
investigate  all  methods  of  butter  and  cheese  making  in 
cheese  factories  or  creameries,  and  to  disseminate  such 
information  as  shall  be  of  service  in  producing  a  more 
uniform  dairy  product,  of  higher  grade,  and  better  quality. 

Sect.  12.  All  fines  recovered  under  this  act  shall  be 
payable  to  the  treasur}'^  of  the  Commonwealth. 

Sect.  13.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of 
September  in  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-one. 


Compensation 
of  members 
of  dairy  bu- 
reau. 


An  Act  providing'  Compensation  for  the   Members  of  the 
State   Dairy  Bureau. 

[Chap.  139,  Acts  of  1892.] 

Section  1.  From  and  after  the  first  day  of  January  in 
the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-two  the  members  of 
the  state  dairy  bureau  shall  be  allowed  from  the  treasury  of 
the  Commonwealth  five  dollars  a  day  for  each  day  of  actual 
service  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties  as  members  of  said 
bureau,  in  addition  to  their  actual  travelling  expenses. 
The  amount  so  allowed  shall  be  paid  from  the  sum  now 
limited  by  section  eight  of  chapter  four  hundred  and 
twelve  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-one  for  carrying  forward  the  work  of  said  bureau. 

Sect.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


To  obtain  and 
circulate  in- 
formation 
relative  to 
abandoned 
farms. 


Expenditures 
not  to  exceed 
$2,000. 


An  Act  to  authorize  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  to  col- 
lect and  circulate  Information  relating  to  Abandoned 
Farms. 

[Chap.  280,  Acts  of  1891.] 

Section  1.  The  state  board  of  agriculture  is  hereby 
authorized  to  collect  all  necessary  information  in  regard 
to  the  opportunities  for  developing  the  agricultural  re- 
sources of  the  Commonwealth  through  the  repopulating 
of  abandoned  or  partially  abandoned  farms,  and  cause 
the  facts  obtained,  and  a  statement  of  the  advantages 
offered,  to  be  circulated  where  and  in  such  manner  as 
the  said  board  may  consider  for  the  best  interests  of 
the  Commonwealth. 

Sect.  2.  In  order  to  properly  carry  out  the  provisions 
of   section  one  of   this   act,   a  sum    not   exceeding  two 


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thousand  dollars  may  be  expended,  and  the  bills  for 
such  expenditures  properly  approved  by  the  persons 
authorized  by  said  state  board  to  investigate  the  matter, 
shall  be  sent  to  the  auditor  of  the  Commonwealth  who 
shall  certify  them  in  the  same  manner  as  other  claims 
against  the  Commonwealth. 

Sect.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


To  provide   against  Depredations   by  the  Insect  known  as 
the  Ocneria  dispar  or  Gypsy  Moth. 

[Chap.  210,  Acts  of  1891.] 

Section  1.     The  state  board  of  agriculture  is  hereby  Extermina. 
authorized,  empowered  and  directed  to  provide  and  carry   ocnena.dispar 
into   execution  all  reasonable  measures  to    prevent   the   mofh.^"^ 
spreading  and  to  secure  the  extermination  of  the  ocneria 
dispar  or  gypsy  moth  in  this  Commonwealth  ;  and  to  this 
end  said  board  shall  have  full  authority  to  provide  all 
necessary  material  and  appliances,   and  to  employ  such 
competent  persons,  servants  and  agents  as  it  shall  from 
time  to  time  deem  necessary  in  the  carrying  out  the  pur- 
poses of  this  act ;  and  said  board  shall  also  have  the  right 
itself  or  by  any  persons,  servants   or  agents    employed 
by  it  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  to  enter  upon  the 
lands  of  any  person. 

Sect.  2.     The  owner  of  any  land  so  entered  upon,  who  Remedy  of 

^  owner  of  laud 

shall  suffer  damage  by  such  entry  and  acts  done  thereon   suffering 

-         .  .  damage. 

by  said  state  board  of  agriculture  or  under  its  direction, 
may  recover  the  same  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the 
lands  so  claimed  to  have  been  damaged  are  situate,  by 
action  of  contract ;  but  any  benefits  received  by  such 
entry  and  the  acts  done  on  such  lands  in  the  execution  of 
the  purposes  of  this  act  shall  be  determined  by  the  court 
or  jury  before  whom  such  action  is  heard,  and  the  amount 
thereof  shall  be  applied  in  the  reduction  of  said  damages  ; 
and  the  Commonwealth  shall  refund  to  said  city  or  town 
one-half  of  the  amount  of  the  damages  recovered. 

Sect.  3.     Said  state  board   of  agriculture   shall  have  Board  of  agri- 

^  culture  may 

full  authority  to  make  from  time  to  time  such  rules  and  make  rules 

.  p     ,  .  .       and  regula- 

regulations  in  furtherance  of  the  purposes  of  this  act  as  it  tions. 
shall  deem  needful,  which  rules  and  regulations  shall  be 
published  in  one  or  more  newspapers  published  in   the 
county  of  Suffolk  ;  and  copies  of  such  rules  and  regula- 
tions shall  be  posted  in  at  least  three  public  places  ia 


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To  keep  a 
record  of  its 
trunsactious 
and  report 
to  the  gen- 
eral court. 


Compensation 
of  agents  and 

servants. 


Penalty  for 
obstructing 
agents  en- 
gaged in  exe- 
cutint;  pur- 
poses of  act. 


The  insect  or 
its  eggs,  etc., 
not  to  be 
brought  into 
the  state,  etc  , 
under  pen- 
alty. 


Power  of  state 
board  may  be 
executed  by 
secretary, 
etc. 


Moneys  here- 
tofore appro- 
priate'd  to  be 
expended  hy 
the  board. 


each  city  or  town  in  which  said  ocneria  dispar  or  gypsy 
moth  shall  be  found  by  said  board  to  exist  and  a  copy 
thereof  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  clerk  of  each  such  city 
and  with  the  town  clerk  of  each  such  town  ;  and  any  person 
who  shall  knowingly  violate  any  of  the  provisions  thereof 
shall  be  punished  for  each  violation  by  a  fine  not  exceed- 
ing twenty-five  dollars. 

Sect.  4.  Said  state  board  of  agriculture  shall  keep  a 
record  of  its  transactions  and  a  full  account  of  all  its 
expenditures  under  this  act,  and  shall  by  its  chairman  or 
secretary  make  report  thereof,  with  such  recommendations 
and  suggestions  as  said  board  shall  deem  necessary,  on 
or  before  the  fourth  Wednesday  in  January,  to  the  general 
court. 

Sect.  5.  Said  state  board  of  agriculture  shall  estab- 
lish the  rate  of  compensation  of  any  persons,  servants  or 
agents  employed  by  it  under  this  act. 

Sect.  6.  Any  person  who  shall  purposely  resist  or 
obstruct  said  state  board  of  agriculture,  or  any  persons, 
servants  or  agents  employed  by  it  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  while  engaged  in  the  execution  of  the  purposes 
of  this  act,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding 
twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Sect.  7.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  know- 
ingly to  bring  the  insect  known  as  the  ocneria  dispar  or 
gypsy  moth,  or  its  nests  or  eggs,  within  this  Common- 
wealth ;  or  for  any  person  knowingly  to  transport  said 
insect,  or  its  nests  or  eggs,  from  any  town  or  city  to 
another  town  or  city  within  this  Commonwealth.  Any 
person  who  shall  offend  against  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  two 
hundred  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  house  of  cor- 
rection not  exceeding  sixty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment. 

Sect.  8.  The  said  state  board  of  agriculture  may  exercise 
all  the  duties  and  powers  herein  conferred  upon  said 
board,  by  and  through  its  secretary  and  such  members  of 
said  board  as  it  may  designate  and  appoint  to  have  in 
charge,  in  conjunction  with  its  secretary,  the  execution  of 
the  purposes  of  this  act. 

Sect.  9.  All  moneys  heretofore  appropriated  or  author- 
ized to  be  e.\pended  under  the  provisions  of  chapters 
ninety-five  and  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  of  the  acts  of 
the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety  or  by  any  other  act, 


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and  not  heretofore  expended,  are  hereby  appropriated  and 
authorized  to  be  expended  b}'  the  said  board  in  carrying 
out  the  purposes  of  this  act. 

Sect.  10.     All  the  property  acquired  and  records  kept  Property  ac 

'        '         -^  ^  ^        quired  and 

under  the  provisions  of  said  chapter  ninety-five  of  the  acts  records  kept 

^  ^  ''  .  to  be  delivered 

of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety  shall  be  delivered   to  the  board, 
into  the  custody  of  said  board,  and  said  board  is  authorized 
to  take,  receive  and  use  the  same  for  the  purposes  of  this 
act. 

Sect.  11.  Chapter  ninety-five  of  the  acts  of  the  year 
eighteen  hundred  and  ninety  is  hereby  repealed,  but  all 
claims  for  damages  under  said  chapter  ninety-five  for 
entry  upon  and  acts  done  on  the  lands  of  any  person  may 
be  prosecuted,  as  therein  provided,  against  the  city  or 
town  wherein  the  lands  entered  upon  are  situate,  and  the 
damages  shall  be  ascertained  and  one-half  of  the  amount 
thereof  recovered  against  any  city  or  town  shall  be  re- 
funded to  such  city  or  town  as  provided  in  said  chapter 
ninety-five. 


An  Act  relative  to  preserving  Ornamental  and  Shade  Trees 
on  the  Highways. 

[Chapter  196,  Acts  of  1890.] 

Section  1.     The  mayor  and  aldermen  of  the  cities  and   shade,  etc., 

•^  trees  to  be 

the  selectmen  of  the  towns  within  the  Commonwealth  are  designated 

and  pre- 

hereby  authorized  to  designate  and  preserve,  as  hereinafter  served. 
provided  in  this  act,  trees  within  the  limits  of  the  highways 
for  the  purposes  of  ornament  and  shade  ;  and  to  so  desig- 
nate not  less  than  one  such  tree  in  every  thirty-three  feet 
where  such  trees  are  growing  and  are  of  a  diameter  of  one 
inch  or  more. 

Sect.  2.     Said   mayor   and   aldermen    and    selectmen   Method  of 
shall  designate  such  trees  as  are  selected  by  them  for  the   i89it49. 


purposes  set  forth  in  this  act  by  driving  into  the  same,  at 
a  point  not  less  than  four  nor  more  than  six  feet  from  the 
ground  and  on  the  side  toward  the  centre  of  the  highway, 
a  nail  or  spike  with  a  head  with  the  letter  M  plainly  im- 
pressed upon  it ;  said  nails  and  spikes  to  be  procured  and 
furnished  by  the  secretary  of  the  state  board  of  agriculture 
to  said  mayor  and  aldermen  and  selectmen  as  required  by 
them  for  the  purposes  of  this  act.  Said  mayor  and  alder- 
men and  selectmen  shall  renew  such  of  said  nails  and 
spikes  as  shall  have  been  destroyed  or  defaced ;  and  shall 


1892,  147. 


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Penalties. 


Proviso. 
P.  S.  54. 


also  designate,  in  the  same  manner  as  hereinbefore  stated, 
snch  other  trees  as  in  their  judgment  should  be  so  desig- 
nated to  carry  out  the  requirements  of  this  act. 

Sect.  3.  Whoever  wantonly  injures,  defaces  or  de- 
stroys any  tree  thus  designated,  or  any  of  said  nails  or 
spikes  affixed  to  such  trees,  shall  forfeit  not  less  than  five 
nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  by 
complaint,  one -half  to  the  complainant  and  one-half  to  the 
use  of  the  town  wherein  the  offence  was  committed. 

Sect.  4.  This  act  shall  not  apply  to  ornamental  or 
shade  trees  whose  preservation  is  now  provided  for  by 
chapter  fifty-four  of  the  Public  Statutes  and  the  acts 
amendatory  thereof. 


Preservation 
and  culture  of 
forest  trees  by 
cities  and 
towns. 


Description  of 
the  land  taken 
to  be  recorded 
in  Uie  registry 
of  deeds. 


An  Act  authorizing  Towns  and  Cities  to   provide  for  the 
Preservation  and  Reproduction  of  Forests. 

[Cliap.  255,  Acts  of  1882,  Sects,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5.] 

Section  1.  The  voters  of  any  town,  at  a  meeting 
legally  called  for  the  purpose,  and  the  city  council  of  any 
city,  may,  for  the  purpose  of  devoting  a  portion  of  the 
territory  of  such  town  or  city  to  the  preservation,  repro- 
duction and  culture  of  forest  trees  for  the  sake  of  the 
wood  and  timber  thereon,  or  for  the  preservation  of  the 
water  supply  of  such  town  or  city,  take  or  purchase  any 
land  within  the  limits  of  such  town  or  city,  may  make 
appropriations  of  money  for  such  taking  or  purchase, 
may  receive  donations  of  money  or  land  for  the  said 
purposes,  and  may  make  a  public  domain  of  the  land  so 
devoted,  subject  to  the  regulations  hereinafter  prescribed. 
The  title  of  all  lands  so  taken,  purchased  or  received 
shall  vest  in  the  Commonwealth,  and  shall  be  held  in 
perpetuity  for  the  benefit  of  the  town  or  city  in  which 
such  land  is  situated. 

Sect.  2.  A  town  or  city  taking  land  under  this  act 
shall,  within  sixty  days  after  such  taking,  file  and  cause 
to  be  recorded  in  the  registry  of  deeds  for  the  county  or 
district  in  which  the  land  is  situated  a  description  thereof 
sufficiently  accurate  for  identifying  the  same.  In  case 
such  town  or  city  and  the  owner  of  such  land  do  not 
agree  upon  the  damage  occasioned  by  such  taking,  such 
damage  shall  be  ascertained  and  determined  in  the 
manner  provided  in  case  of  the  taking  of  land  for  a 
highway  in  such   town  or  city,   and  such  town  or  city 


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shall  thereupon  pay  such  sums  as  may  finally  be  deter- 
mined to  be  due. 

Sect.  3.  The  state  board  of  agriculture  shall  act  as 
a  board  of  forestry,  without  pay,  except  for  necessary 
travelling  expenses,  and  shall  have  the  supervision  and 
management  of  all  such  public  domains,  and  shall  make 
all  necessary  regulations  for  their  care  and  use  and  for 
the  increase  and  preservation  of  the  timber,  wood  and 
undergrowth  thereon,  and  for  the  planting  and  cultivating 
of  trees  therein.  The  said  board  shall  appoint  one  or  more 
persons,  to  be  called  keepers,  to  have  charge,  subject  to  its 
direction,  of  each  such  public  domain,  enforce  its  regula- 
tions and  perform  such  labor  thereon  as  said  board  shall 
require  ;  and  said  keepers  shall  have  the  same  power  to  pro- 
tect such  domain  from  injur}'  and  trespass,  and  to  keep 
the  peace  therein  as  constables  and  police  officers  in  towns. 

Sect.  4.  Said  board  may  lease  any  building  that  may 
be  on  any  such  public  domain  on  such  terms  as  it  shall 
deem  expedient.  All  sums  which  may  be  derived  from 
rents  and  from  the  sale  of  the  products  of  any  such 
domain  shall  be  paid  to  said  board  and  shall  be  applied 
by  it,  so  far  as  necessary,  to  the  management,  care, 
cultivation  and  improvement  of  such  domain  ;  and  any 
surplus  remaining  in  any  year  shall  be  paid  over  to  the 
city  or  town  in  which  such  domain  is  situated.  Said 
board  shall  not,  however,  expend  upon  or  on  account  of 
any  such  public  domain  in  any  year  a  greater  amount 
than  it  receives  as  aforesaid. 

Sect.  5.  A  city  or  town  in  which  any  such  public  do- 
main is  situated  may  erect  thereon  any  building  for  public 
instruction  or  recreation,  pi'ovided  that  such  use  thereof 
is  not  in  the  judgment  of  said  board  inconsistent  with  the 
purposes  expressed  in  section  one. 


Board  of 
forestry  to 
serve  without 
pay;  to 
appoint 
keepers. 


may  lease 
buildings  on 
land. 

Proceeds  of 
sale  of  prod- 
ucts to  be  paid 
to  board. 


Buildings  for 
Instruction 
and  recreation 
may  be  built. 


*  An  Act  to  establish  an  Agricultural  Experiment  Station. 
[Chap.  212,  Acts  of  1882,  Sects.  1,  2,  3.] 

Section  1.     An  agricultural  experiment  station  shall  Experiment 

be  established  and  maintained  at  the  Massachusetts  agri-  iished. 
cultural  college  in  the  town  of  Amherst. 

Sect.  2.     The  management  of   said  station    shall   be  Management 

vested  in  a  board  of  control  of  seven  persons  of  which  bolrd  of 

. .    control. 

*  Chapter  143  of  the  Acts  of  1894  provides  for  the  consolidation  of  the 
Massachusetts  Experiment  Station  with  the  Experiment  Department  of 
the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College. 


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Proviso. 


Board  to 
make  report 
to  the  legis- 
lature. 


board  the  governor  shall  be  president  ex  officio,  and  of 
which  two  members  shall  be  elected  from  the  state  board 
of  agriculture,  by  said  board  of  agriculture  ;  two  from  the 
trustees  of  the  Massachusetts  agricultural  college,  by  said 
trustees ;  one  from  the  Massachusetts  society  for  pro- 
moting agriculture,  by  said  society ;  and  the  remaining 
member  shall  be  the  president  of  the  Massachusetts  agri- 
cultural college.  The  said  board  shall  choose  a  secretary 
and  treasurer. 

[Section  2  has  been  amended  by  Acts  of  1888,  chap. 
333,  sect.  1,  so  as  to  read  as  follows: — The  manage- 
ment of  said  station  shall  be  vested  in  a  board  of  control 
of  eleven  persons,  of  which  board  the  governor  shall  be 
president  ex  officio,  and  of  which  two  members  shall  be 
elected  from  the  state  board  of  agriculture,  by  said  board 
of  agriculture  ;  two  from  the  trustees  of  the  Massachusetts 
agricultural  college,  by  said  trustees  ;  one  from  the  Massa- 
chusetts society  for  promoting  agriculture,  by  said  society  ; 
one  from  the  Massachusetts  state  grange,  by  said  state 
grange ;  one  from  the  Massachusetts  horticultural  society, 
b}'  said  society  ;  and  the  remaining  members  shall  be  the 
president  of  the  Massachusetts  agricultural  college,  the 
director  of  the  Massachusetts  agricultural  experiment 
station  and  the  secretary  of  the  state  board  of  agriculture  : 
provided,  however,  that  no  person  so  elected  by  any  of 
the  above  named  boards  or  societies  shall  continue  to  be 
a  member  of  said  board  of  control  after  he  has  ceased  to 
be  a  member  of  the  board  or  of  the  society  by  which  he 
was  elected.  The  said  board  shall  choose  a  secretary  and 
treasurer.] 

Sect.  3.  The  said  board  of  control  shall  hold  an  annual 
meeting  in  the  month  of  January,  at  which  time  it  shall 
.make  to  the  legislature  a  detailed  report  of  all  moneys 
expended  by  its  order,  and  of  the  results  of  the  experi- 
ments and  investigations  conducted  at  said  station,  with 
the  name  of  each  experimenter  attached  to  the  report  of 
his  own  work,  which  detailed  report  shall  be  printed  in 
the  annual  report  of  the  secretary  of  the  state  board  of 
agriculture. 


Agricultural 
experiment 
station  to 


An  Act  relating  to  the  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of 

Control  of  the  Agricultural  Experiment  Station. 

[Ckiap.  105,  Acts  of  1883.] 

The  board  of  control  of  the  agricultural   experiment 
station  shall  annually,  in  the  month  of  January,  make  a 


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detailed  report  to  the  state  board  of  agriculture  of  all  ^portto""^' 
moneys  expended  by  its  order,  and  of  tlie  results  of  the   ^^^j^'^j."^  ^s"" 
experiments  and  iuvestigations  conducted  at  said  station, 
with  the  name  of  each  experimenter  attached  to  the  report 
of  his  own  work. 

Board  of  Supervisors  of  Statistics. 
[P.  S.,  Chap.  31,  Sect.  17.] 

Sect.   17.     The  secretary   of   the   commonwealth,   the   Board  of 

,  1?       1  •  T     supervisors  of 

secretaries  of  the  boards  of  agriculture,  of  education,  and   statistics. 

-     ,  ,  -I       ,.    ,        1,1       1  T      1        •.  n   ii         Kes.  1877,  60. 

of  the  state  board  of  health,  lunacy,  and  charity,  and  the 
chief  of  the  bureau  of  statistics  of  labor,  shall  constitute  a 
board  of  supervisors  of  statistics,  who  shall  serve  without 
pay- 

An  Act  concerning  the  Printing  and  Distribution  of  Cer- 
tain Reports  and  Public  Documents. 

[Chap.  369,  Acta  of  1885,  Sect.  1.] 

Section  1.     There  shall  be  printed  annually  the  num-  Documents 

.  and  reports. 

ber  of  copies  of  documents  and  reports  specified  in  this 
section,  the  same  to  be  numbered  in  the  series  of  Public 
Documents,  and  distributed  as  herein  provided  :  Report  Agriculture. 
of  secretary  of  board  of  agriculture,  twelve  thousand 
copies ;  twenty-five  copies  thereof  to  be  furnished  to  each 
member  of  the  legislature. 

This  has  been  amended  by  Acts  of  1888,  chap.  256  :  — 
Sect.  1.     There  shall  be  printed  annually  fifteen  thou-  Additional 
sand  copies  of  the  report  of  the   secretary  of  the  state   secretary  of 

1  T      1}  -li  ij.  ijr^ii  1  •  c    the  State  board 

board  of  agriculture  ;  and  twenty-nve  thousand  copies  or   ofagricuiture, 
the  report  of  the  board  of  control  of  the  state  agricultural  ®'°' 
experiment  station. 

Sect.  2.  Of  the  reports  of  the  board  of  control  of  the 
state  agricultural  experiment  station  provided  for  in  sec- 
tion one  of  this  chapter,  fifteen  thousand  copies  shall  be 
bound  with  the  reports  of  the  secretary  of  the  state  board 
of  agriculture,  and  eight  thousand  copies  shall  be  for  the 
use  of  the  said  board  of  control. 


Printing  and  Distribution  of  Public  Documents. 
[P.  S.,  Chap.  4,  Sect.  11.] 

Sect.   11.     The    treasurer,    auditor,    attorney-general,  Report  of  the 

board  of  agri- 

adjutant-general,  board  of  education,  and  board  of  agri-  culture  may 

.  „     ,     .  be  put  in  type 

culture,  may  require  any  portion  of  their  reports  to  be  put  in  advance. 


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in  type  previous  to  the  first  Wednesday  in  January 
annually,  when  the  same  can  be  done  consistently  with 
the   public  advantage. 


An  Act  for  the  Suppression  of  Contagious  Diseases  among 
Domestic  Animals. 


[Chap.  252,  Acts  of  1887,  Sect.  19.] 

Sect.  19.  Cattle  commissioners  now  or  hereafter 
appointed  shall  keep  a  full  record  of  the'ir  doings,  and 
report  the  same  to  the  legislature  on  or  before  the  tenth 


Abstract  of 
report  of 
cattle  commis- 
Bioners  to  be 
printed  in 

board  of  agri-    day  of  January  in  each  year  unless  sooner  required  by  the 
governor  ;  and  an  abstract  of  the  same  shall  be  printed  in 


the  annual  report  of  the  state  board  of  agriculture. 


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STATUTES    RELATING    TO  AGRICULTURAL   AND 
HORTICULTURAL  SOCIETIES. 


PUBLIC    STATUTES.  — CHAPTER   114 


INDEX. 


Section 

1.  Agricultural  societies  may  be  entitled 
to  annual  sum  from  the  treasury,  bj% 
etc. 

2.  Societies  claiming  bounty  to  file  certifi- 
cate. 

3.  Amount  of  bounty.  State  board  may 
witliliold  tiie  same. 

4.  Societies  may  make  rules  for  distribu- 
tion of  bounty. 

5.  to  make  annual  returns,  with  passages, 
etc.,  marked. 

6.  Forfeiture  of  bounty. 

7.  Premiums  to  be  offered  by  societies,  etc. 

8.  for  trees  for  ship  timber. 

9.  All  citizens  of  county  may  become  mem- 
bers, and  compete  for  premiums. 

10.  SuriJlus  to  be  at  interest. 

11.  To  what  societies  provisions  apply. 

12.  Cattle  shows  regulated. 

13.  Penalty. 

14.  Extent  of  foregoing  provisions. 


Section 

15.  Marshals  to  be  appointed;  to  have  pow- 
ers of  constables. 

16.  Rules  for  ascertaining  amount  of  pre- 
mium crops. 

17.  Premiums  for  experiments. 

ASSOCIATIONS    FOR    ENCOURAGING 
AGRICULTURE,    ETC. 

18.  Ten  or  more  persons  may  become  a  cor- 
poration.    Powers  and  privileges. 

FARMERS'   CLUBS. 

19.  Farmers'  clubs  to  receive  publications, 
etc. 

GOOD   ORDER    AT   FAIRS,    ETC. 

20.  Societies,  etc.,  may  make  regulations  for 
preservation  of  peace  at  fairs,  etc. 

21.  Booths,  etc.,  not  to  be  established  within 
half  mile  of  cattle  shows,  without  con- 
sent.    Gaming,  etc.,  prohibited. 

22.  Penalty. 


Section    1.     Every   incorporated    agricultural    society   Agricultural 

,  .    ,  -IT,  ,.  1.L1     I  societies  may 

which  was  entitled  to  bounty  from  the  commonwealth  be-   be  entitled  to 
fore   the   twenty-fifth  day  of  May  in  the  year  eighteen   from'the 
hundred  and  sixty-six,  and  every  other  such  society  whose   etc^^"'^'   ^' 

G.  S.66,  §  1. 
1866,  189,  §  1. 
1870,  2.58. 


exhibition  grounds  and  buildiugs  are  not  within  twelve 
miles  of  those  of  a  society  then  entitled  to  bounty,  and 
which  has  raised  by  contribution  of  individuals  and  put 
out  at  interest  on  public  or  private  security,  or  invested 
in  real  estate,  buildings,  and  appurtenances  for  its  use 
and  accommodation,  one  thousand  dollars,  as  a  capital 
appropriated  for  its  uses,  shall,  except  when  otherwise 
determined  by  the  state  board  of  agriculture  as  provided 
in  section  three,  be  entitled  to  receive  in  the  month  of 
October  annually',  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  common- 
wealth, two  hundred  dollars,  and  in  that  proportion  for 


1881,  285. 
1890,  297. 


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Societies 
claiming 
bounty  to 
file  certitii-ate. 
G.  S.  66,  §  -l. 
1891,  124 


Amount  of 

bounty. 

State  board 

may  withhold 

same. 

G.  S.  66,  §  3. 

1881,  285. 


Societies  may 
make  rules, 
etc.,  for  di«- 
tribution  of 
bounty. 
186.5,90,  §  1. 


to  make 
annual  re- 
turns, with 
passages,  etc., 
marked. 
G.  S.  66,  §  5. 
1874,  182. 


any  greater  sum  so  contributed  and  put  at  interest  or  in- 
vested ;  but  no  society  sliall  receive  a  larger  amount  in  one 
year  than  it  lias  awarded  and  paid  in  premiums  during  the 
year  last  preceding,  nor  more  than  six  hundred  dollars  : 
provided,  that  if  there  is  only  one  incorporated  agricul- 
tural society  in  any  county,  such  society  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  said  bounty  notwithstanding  its  exhibition 
grounds  and  buildings  are  within  twelve  miles  of  a  society 
entitled  to  said  bounty  ;  and  provided^  further,  that  such 
society  shall  not  after  having  received  said  bounty  forfeit 
the  right  to  receive  the  same  by  reason  of  the  subsequent 
incorporation  of  another  society  within  the  same  county. 

Sect.  2.  Every  society  which  claims  bounty  shall  an- 
nually, on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  January,  file  in  the 
office  of  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  agriculture,  a  cer- 
tificate signed  by  its  president  and  treasurer,  specifying 
under  oath  the  sum  so  contributed  and  put  at  interest  or 
invested,  and  then  held  so  invested  or  well  secured  as  a 
capital  stock  ;  and  also  such  other  returns  of  their  finan- 
cial affairs  as  the  board  of  agriculture  may  require,  upon 
a  blank  to  be  furnished  by  the  secretary  of  the  board  of 
agriculture  to  the  treasurer  of  such  societies. 

Sect.  3.  The  amount  of  bounty  to  wliicli  a  society  is 
entitled  for  any  year  shall  be  ascertained  b}^  the  certificate 
last  filed  by  it  under  the  preceding  section.  But  a  society 
shall  not  receive  bounty  in  any  year,  if  the  state  board  of 
agriculture,  having  first  given  such  society  full  opportunity 
to  be  heard  in  relation  to  its  financial  affairs  and  general 
management,  so  determines  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the 
whole  number  of  its  members  present  at  its  annual  meet- 
ing, and  by  its  secretary  notifies  the  treasurer  of  the  com- 
monwealth thereof  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  September 
in  such  year. 

Sect.  4.  Every  society  receiving  bounty  shall  make 
such  rules  and  regulations  for  tiie  distribution  thereof  as 
shall,  in  its  opinion,  best  promote  the  improvement  of 
agriculture  ;  subject,  however,  to  the  restrictions  of  sec- 
tions six  to  ten  inclusive. 

Sect.  5.  Every  such  society  sliall  annually,  on  or  be- 
fore the  tenth  day  of  January,  make  a  full  return  of  its 
doings,  signed  by  its  president  and  secretary,  to  the  sec- 
retary of  the  board  of  agriculture,  embracing  a  statement 
of  the  expenditure  of  all  mone^^,  specifying  the  nature  of 
the  encouragement  proposed  by  the  society,  the  objects 


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for  whicli  its  premiums  have  been  offered,  and  the  persons 
to  whom  they  Iiave  been  awarded,  and  iuchiding  all  re- 
ports of  committees  and  all  statements  of  experiments 
and  cultivation  regarded  by  the  president  and  secretary 
as  worthy  of  publication,  and  with  such  general  observa- 
tions concerning  the  state  of  agriculture  and  manufactures 
in  the  commonwealth  as  it  may  deem  useful. 

The  return  sliall  be  marked  in  such  manner  that  the 
passages  deemed  by  such  officers  most  worthy  of  public 
notice,  study,  and  application  may  be  easily  distinguished. 

Sect.  6.  A  society  which  neglects  in  any  3'ear  to  com- 
ply with  the  laws  relating  thereto,  or  with  the  regulations 
of  the  board  of  agriculture,  shall  not  be  entitled  to  bounty 
in  the  year  next  succeeding. 

Sect.  7.  Every  society  which  receives  said  bounty 
shall  offer  annually  by  way  of  premiums,  or  shall  otherwise 
appl}'^  for  the  encouragement  or  improvement  of  agricul- 
ture or  manufactures,  a  sum  not  less  than  the  amount  so 
annually  received,  and  shall  offer  such  premiums  for 
agricultural  experiments  and  in  such  manner  as  the  state 
board  of  agriculture  requires. 

Sect.  8.  Every  such  society  shall  annually  offer  such 
premiums  and  encouragement  for  the  raising  and  pre- 
serving of  oaks  and  other  forest  trees  as  to  it  seems 
proper  and  best  adapted  to  perpetuate  within  the  common- 
wealth an  adequate  supply  of  ship  timber. 

Sect.  9.  Every  such  society  shall  admit  as  members, 
upon  equal  terms,  citizens  of  every  town  in  the  county  in 
which  it  is  located,  and  all  premiums  offered  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  competition  of  every  citizen  of  such  count3^ 

Sect.  10.  All  money  offered  for  premiums  which  is 
not  awarded  or  paid  shall  be  put  out  at  interest  and  added 
to  the  capital  stock  of  the  society. 

Sect.  11.  The  foregoing  provisions,  except  the  proviso 
in  section  three  authorizing  the  state  board  of  agriculture 
to  withhold  bounty,  shall  not,  except  by  special  enact- 
ment, extend  to  an  agricultural  society  incorporated  for 
any  territory  less  than  a  county. 

Sect.  12.  Every  society  may  by  its  officers  define  and 
fix  bounds  of  sufficient  extent  for  the  erection  of  its  cattle 
pens  and  yards,  and  for  convenient  passage  ways  to  and 
about  the  same,  on  the  days  of  its  cattle  shows  and 
exhibitions,  and  also  for  its  ploughing  matches  and  trials 
of  working  oxen  ;  within  which  bounds  no  persons  shall 


Forfeiture  of 

bounty. 

O.  S.  66,  §  6. 


Premiams  to 
be  offered  by 
societies,  etc. 
G.  S.  66,  §  7. 


for  trees  for 
ship  timber. 
O.  S.  66,  §  8. 


AH  citizens  of 
county  may 
be  members, 

1861,  180,  §  1. 


Surplus  to  be 
at  interest. 
G.  S.66,  §9. 


To  what 
societies  pro- 
visions  apply. 
G.  S.  66,  §  10. 
1881,  285. 


Cattle  shows 
regulated. 
G.  S.66,  §  11. 
6  Allen,  588. 


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Penalty. 

a.  8.66,  §  12. 


Limit  of 
bounds. 
G.S.66,  §   13. 
6  Allen,  588. 


Marshale  to 
be  appointed ; 
to  have 
powers  of 
constables. 
G.  S.  66,  §  U. 
6  Allen,  588. 


Rules  for 
ascertaining 
the  amount  of 
premium 
crops. 
1862,  24,  §  1. 

Premiums  for 
experiments. 

1881,285. 


be  permitted  to  enter  or  pass  unless  in  conformity  with 
the  regulations  of  the  officers  of  the  society. 

Sect.  13.  Whoever  contrary  to  such  regulations,  and 
after  notice  thereof,  enters  or  passes  within  the  bounds 
so  fixed,  shall  forfeit  a  sum  not  exceeding  five  dollars. 

Sect.  14.  The  foregoing  provisions  shall  not  author- 
ize a  society  to  occupy  or  include  within  such  bounds  the 
land  of  any  [)erson  without  his  consent,  nor  to  obstruct 
travel  on  an}^  public  highway. 

Sect.  15.  The  officers  of  eacli  society  may  appoint  a 
sufficient  number  of  suitable  inhabitants  of  the  county  to 
act  as  marshals  at  cattle  shows  and  exhibitions,  who  shall 
have  the  powers  of  constables  in  relation  to  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  public  peace  and  the  service  and  execution  of 
criminal  process  within  the  respective  towns  where  such 
shows  and  exhibitions  are  held,  and  such  process  may  be 
directed  to  them  accordingly ;  and  the}'^  shall  exercise 
their  office  from  twelve  o'clock  at  noon  of  the  day  pre- 
ceding the  commencement  of  such  shows  and  exhibitions 
until  twelve  o'clock  at  noon  of  the  day  succeeding  the 
termination  thereof,  and  no  longer. 

Sect.  16.  The  state  board  of  agriculture  may  pre- 
scribe rules  and  regulatious  to  societies  for  uniform 
modes  of  ascertaining  the  product  of  crops  entered  for 
premium. 

Sect.  17.  Any  agricultural  society  may  offer  and  pay 
premiums  for  experiments  in  the  cultivation  of  crops  or 
in  the  raising  of  domestic  animals  for  farm  purposes,  and 
no  regulation  of  the  board  of  agriculture  to  the  contrary 
shall  be  valid. 


Ten  or  more 
persons  may 
beciime  a 
corporation. 
Powers  and 
privileges. 
G.  8.66,  §  17. 


Associations  for  Encouragikg  Agriculture,  etc. 

Sect.  18.  Ten  or  more  persons  in  any  county,  city, 
or  town,  who  by  agreement  in  writing  associate  for  the 
purpose  of  encouraging  agriculture  or  horticulture,  or  for 
improving  and  ornamenting  tlie  streets  and  public  squares 
of  any  city  or  town  by  planting  and  cultivating  ornamen- 
tal trees  therein,  may  become  a  corporation  by  such  name 
as  they  assume  therefor  upon  calling  their  first  meeting 
and  organizing  in  the  manner  provided  in  sections  twelve 
and  thirteen  of  chapter  foity  ;  and  shall  thereui)on  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  general  court  have  for  their  purposes 
all  the  rights,  powers,  and  privileges  given  by  sections 
twelve  to  fifteen,  inclusive,  of  said  chapter,  and  may  hold 


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real  and  personal  estate  not  exceeding  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars in  value. 

Farmers'  Clubs. 

Sect.   19.     Fanners'     clubs    properly    oro;anized    and   Farmers' 

^      I-        ''  »  clubs  to  re- 

holding  regular  meetings  shall,  upon  application  made  cHve  pubiica- 
annually  in  November  to  the  secretary  of  the  state  board  G.s.'ee,  §  is. 
of  agriculture,  receive  copies  of  its  report  and  of  its  other 
publications,  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  their  mem- 
bers and  to  the  applications  so  made.  Every  club  receiv- 
ing such  copies  shall  annually  in  October  make  returns  to 
said  secretary  of  its  agricultural  experiments  and  of  the 
reports  of  its  committees. 


Good  Order  at  Fairs,  etc. 

Sect.  20.  Any  agricultural  society  or  farmers'  club 
may  establish  such  regulations,  not  repugnant  to  law,  as 
it  may  deem  necessary  and  expedient  for  the  preservation 
of  peace  and  good  order  or  for  the  protection  of  its  inter- 
ests at  its  regular  or  annual  meetings,  shows,  fairs,  or 
exhibitions,  and  shall  cause  at  least  five  copies  of  such 
regulations  to  be  posted  in  as  many  public  places  on  its 
grounds  not  less  than  forty-eight  hours  before  the  time  of 
holding  each  meeting. 

Sect.  21.  No  person  during  the  time  of  holding  a 
cattle  show,  fair,  or  exhibition,  or  meeting  of  a  farmers' 
club,  without  the  consent  of  the  proper  authorities  having 
charge  of  the  same,  shall  establish  within  one-half  mile  of 
the  place  of  holding  such  show  or  meeting  a  tent,  booth,  or 
vehicle  of  any  kind  for  the  purpose  of  vending  any  goods, 
wares,  merchandise,  provisions,  or  refreshments.  No 
person  shall  engage  iu  any  gaming  or  horse-racing  or 
exhibit  any  show  or  play  during  the  regular  or  stated  time 
of  holding  any  cattle  show,  agricultural  fair,  or  meeting 
of  any  farmers'  club,  or  engage  in  pool-selling,  at  or 
within  half  a  mile  of  the  place  of  holding  the  same  :  pro- 
vided, that  any  person  having  his  regular  place  of  busi- 
ness within  such  limits  shall  not  be  hereby  required  to 
suspend  his  business. 

Sect.  22.  Whoever  violates  any  provision  of  the  pre- 
ceding section,  or  a  regulation  established  under  section 
twenty,  shall  forfeit  for  such  offence  a  sum  not  exceeding 
twenty  dollars. 


Societies,  etc. 
may  make 
regulations 
for  preserva- 
tion of  pe.ice 
at  fairs,  etc. 
1861,  127,  §  1. 
6  Allen,  588. 


Booths,  etc., 
for  sale  of 
goods,  not  to 
be  established 
within  half 
mile  of  cattle 
shows,  etc., 
without  con- 
sent. 


Gaming, 
horse-racing, 
etc.,  prohib- 
ited. 

1861,  127,  §  2. 
1877,  149,  §  1. 


Penalty. 
1861,  127,  §  3 


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Mortgage  or 
sale  of  real 
estate  of  in- 
corporated 
agricultural 
societies. 
P.  S.  114. 


An  Act  concerning  Real  Estate  owned  by  Certain  Agricult- 
ural Societies. 

[Chap.  274,  Acts  of  1890.] 

Section  1.  No  incorporated  agricultural  society  which 
has  received  or  which  may  receive  a  bounty  from  the 
treasury  of  the  Commonwealth  under  the  provisions  of 
chapter  one  hundred  and  fourteen  of  the  Public  Statutes 
shall  mortgage  or  sell  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  its  real 
estate  until  authority  for  such  sale  or  mortgage  has  been 
granted  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  mem- 
bers of  such  society,  present  and  voting  at  a  meeting  duly 
called  for  that  purpose,  and  the  vote  has  been  approved  by 
the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  after  due  notice  to  parties 
interested  and  a  hearing  thereon. 

Sect.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


Police  officers 
at  asricultural 
exhibitions, 
etc. 


An  Act  providing  for  the  Assignment  of  Police  Officers  for 
Special  Service  at  Agricultural  and  Horticultural  Ex- 
hibitions. 

[Chap.  180,  Acts  of  1892.] 

On  the  application  of  the  president  of  an  incorporated 
agricultural  or  horticultural  society  to  the  proper  authori- 
ties of  a  town  or  city  in  whicli  an  exhibition  of  such 
society  is  to  be  held,  said  town  or  city  authorities  shall 
assign  for  special  service  at  such  exhibition  as  many  police 
officers  or  constables  as  may  be  necessary  to  preserve  the 
peace  and  enforce  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  at  such 
exhibition. 


Property  and  Persons  exempted  from  Taxation. 
[1*.  S.,  chap.  11.] 

Estate  of  Sect.  5.     The   following  property   and   polls  shall   be 

agricultural  _  oil./  i 

societies.     .    exempted  from  taxation  :  ...... 

G.  8.§5,cl.9.  '■ 

116  Mass.  189,   Ninth,  The  estate,  both  real  and  i)ersonal,  of  incorporated 
191.  .     '  ,         .     . 

agricultural  societies. 


Gaming  at 
cattle  shows, 
musters,  etc. 
G.S.85,  §9. 


Of  Gaming. 

[P.  S.,  chap.  99.] 

Sect.  11.  Whoever  during  or  within  twelve  hours  of 
the  time  of  holding  a  cattle-show,  military  muster,  or 
public  gathering,  within  one  mile  of  the  place  thereof, 
practises  or  engages  in  any  gambling  or  unlawful  game, 
shall  forfeit  for  each  offence  a  sum  not  exceeding  twenty 
dollars.      If   he   is   discovered    in   the    act,    he   may   be 


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arrested  by  any  sheriff,  deputy-sheriff,  constable,  or 
other  civil  officer,  and  lawfully  detained,  by  imprison- 
ment in  jail  or  otherwise,  not  exceeding  twenty-four 
hours,  until  a  complaint  is  made  against  him  for  the 
offence. 


Of  the  Suppression  of  Common  Nuisances. 
[P.  S.,  chap.  101.] 

Sect.  10,     The   mayor  and  aldermen  or  selectmen  of  Booths,  etc., 

"^  used  tor 

any  place,  upon  complaint  made  to  them  under  oath  that  gaming,  etc., 

'/'■''■  1  ^  near  public 

the  complainant  has  reason  to  believe  and  does  believe   shows,  etc., 

how  removed. 

that  a  booth,  shed,  or  other  temporary  erection,  situated  g.  s.st,  §io. 
within  one  mile  of  a  muster-field,  cattle-show  ground,  or 
other  place  of  public  gathering,  is  used  and  occupied  for 
the  sale  of  spirituous  or  fermented  liquor,  or  for  the  pur- 
pose of  gaming,  may,  if  they  consider  the  complaint  well 
founded,  order  the  owner  or  occupant  thereof  to  vacate 
and  close  the  same  forthwith.  If  the  owner  or  occupant 
refuses  or  neglects  so  to  do,  the  mayor  and  aldermen  or 
selectmen  may  forthwith  abate  such  booth,  shed,  or  erec- 
tion as  a  nuisance,  and  pull  down  or  otherwise  destroy 
the  same  in  any  manner  they  choose,  or  through  the 
agency  of  any  force,  civil  or  military. 


Of  Offences  against  Public  Policy. 
[P.  S.,  chap.  209.] 

Sect.  11.     All  racing,  running,  trotting,  or  pacing  of  Racing,  etc., 

^'  >■  ^  declared  un- 

a  horse  or  other  animal  of  the  horse  kind  for  a  bet  or  lawful. 

wager  of  money  or  other  valuable  thing,  or  for  a  purse  or 

stake,  made  within  this  State,  except  trials  of  the  speed 

of   horses   for    premiums   offered   by  legally   constituted 

agricultural  societies,   is   declared  to  be  unlawful ;    and 

any  person  engaged  in  such  racing,  running,  trotting,  or 

pacing,  for  any  such  bet  or  wager,  purse  or  stake,  or 

aiding  or  abetting  the  same,  shall  be  punished  by  fine   Penalty. 

not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  or  imprisonment  in   {^ga  67^"'^^' 

the  jail  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  102,  Mass. 405. 

imprisonment. 


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BY-LAWS  OF  THE  MASSACHUSETTS  STATE 
BOAED  OF  AGRICULTUEE. 


Odiceis  and 
committees, 
how  consti- 


OfliceiB,  how 
elected. 


Special 
committees. 


CHAPTER  I. 

Officers. 

Article  1.  The  officers  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Board  of  Agriculture  shall  be  a  president,  two  vice-presi- 
dents, a  secretary,  and  eight  standing  committees  ;  said 
committees  to  consist  of  five  members  each,  except  the 
executive  committee,  which  shall  consist  of  seven  mem- 
bers, and  be  composed  of  the  chairmen  of  the  seven  other 
committees.     The  ei^ht  standius:  committees  shall  be  :  — 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 
ucts. 

6. 

7. 


An  executive  committee. 

A  committee  on  agricultural  societies. 

A  committee  on  domestic  animals  and  sanitation. 

A  committee  on  gypsy  moth,  insects  and  birds. 

A  committee  on  dairy  bureau  and  agricultural  prod- 


A  committee  on  agricultural  college  and  education. 
A  committee  on  experiments  and  station  work. 

8.  A  committee  on  forestry,  roads,  and  roadside  im- 
provements. 

Art.  2.  The  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth  shall  be 
ex-officio  president  of  the  Board.  The  vice-presidents  and 
secretary  shall  be  elected  annually  by  ballot.  The  stand- 
ing committees  shall  be  appointed  by  the  chair  at  the  an- 
nual meeting,  with  approval  of  the  Board,  except  that  the 
committee  on  dairy  bureau  and  agricultural  products 
shall  include  the  three  members  designated  by  the  Gov- 
ernor, as  provided. in  chapter  412  of  the  Acts  of  1891, 
and  the  committee  on  experiments  and  station  work  shall 
include  the  two  members  of  the  Board  of  Control  of  the 
State  Experiment  Station  elected  by  the  Board  of  Agri- 
culture, as  provided  by  chapter  333  of  the  Acts  of  1888. 

Art.  3.  The  secretary  of  the  Board  shall  be  an  ex- 
ojjicio  member  of  each  standing  committee.  Special  com- 
mittees may  be  chosen  from  time  to  time,  as  the  Board 
may  deem  expedient. 


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CHAPTER  II. 

Specialists. 
Article  1 .     The  Board  shall  also  elect  annually,  by  Duties  of 
ballot,  six  specialists,  to  wit:  a  chemist,  a  veterinarian,    how'paTd!' 
an  entomologist,  an  ornithologist,  an  engineer,  a  botanist 
and  a  pomologist.      These  specialists  shall  consider  such 
matters  as  may  be  referred  to  them  from  time  to  time  and 
report  to  the  Board  or  to  some  committee    thereof,  and 
shall  be  paid  for  their  services  out  of  any  funds  available 
for  such  work,  either  per  diem  or  at  such  rate  as  may  be 
agreed  upon  with  the  secretary  of  the  Board.    They  shall 
also  be  expected  to  attend,  without  pay,  the  public  winter 
meeting  of  the  Board,  and  also  the  annual  meeting,  and 
take  part  therein,  but  they  shall  not  be  entitled  to  a  vote 
except  in  the  case  of  the  chemist,  who  by  law  is  made  a 
member  of  the  Board. 

CHAPTER   III. 
Duties  of  Officers  and  Committees. 
Article    1.      The  officers  of   this  Board  are  charged   Duties  of 

officers. 

with  the  duties  and  entitled  to  the  rights  and  privileges 
which  belong  by  general  consent  and  parliamentary  cus- 
tom to  their  respective  offices. 

Art,   2.     The   president  or  one   of  the  vice-presidents 
shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  Board. 

The  Secretary, 

Art.  3.  The  secretary  of  the  Board  shall  keep  the  Dudes  of 
records  of  all  meetings  of  the  Board,  and  as  full  an 
abstract  of  the  returns  of  the  agricultural  societies  as  may 
be  deemed  useful.  He  shall  have  the  custody  and  care  of 
all  books,  documents,  and  papers  relating  to  matters 
which  may  come  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Board' of 
Agriculture,  and  shall  keep  the  same  properly  filed  and 
indexed.  He  shall  keep  a  full  and  accurate  account  of  all 
moneys  which  may  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Board  of  Agriculture,  also  of  bounties  and  other  moneys 
which  may  be  expended  under  its  direction  or  in  its  behalf. 
He  "  shall  furnish  to  the  secretary  of  each  agricultural 
society  from  time  to  time  such  printed  forms  and  blanks 
as  may  be  deemed  necessary  to  secure  uniform  and  re- 
liable statistics,"  and  any  other  information  that  may  be 
called  for  by  the  Board.     He  shall  annually,  on  or  before 


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Duties  of  sec- 
retary con- 
tinued. 


Attend  insti- 
tutes. 


Prepare 
papers,  etc. 


Librarian 
and  curator. 


the  first  Wednesday  in  January,  with  the  approval  of  the 
Board,  submit  to  the  General  Court  such  parts  of  his 
annual  report  as  contain  recommendations  and  suggestions 
for  legislation  in  the  interests  of  agriculture,  and  shall  in 
each  year  cause  to  be  made  and  published  with  his  full 
report,  in  a  volume  for  distribution,  as  full  an  abstract  of 
the  doings  of  the  Board  and  of  the  returns  of  the  agri- 
cultural societies  as  he  may  deem  useful,  which  volume, 
to  be  known  as  the  "  Agriculture  of  Massachusetts," 
shall  be  completed,  printed,  presented  to  the  General 
Court,  and  distributed  as  soon  as  possible  after  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Board.  (See  Public  Statutes,  chapter 
20,  sections  7,  8  and  9,  and  chapter  144,  Acts  of  1893.) 

The  secretary  shall,  as  opportunity  offers,  attend  insti- 
tutes, agricultural  fairs,  and  other  meetings  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  agriculture  of  the  State,  or  he  may  delegate 
this  work,  if  his  time  will  not  permit,  to  agents,  as  pro- 
vided for  in  chapter  20,  section  10,  of  the  Public 
Statutes. 

The  secretary  or  his  assistants  shall  also  prepare  sub- 
jects for  discussions  at  institutes  and  public  meetings,  and 
shall  collate  and  tabulate,  from  time  to  time,  such  infor- 
mation as  may  be  of  service  to  the  State. 

The  secretary  shall  appoint  one  of  his  clerks  librarian 
and  curator,  who  shall  act  under  his  directions. 


Duties  of 
executive 
committee. 


Powers  not 

otherwise 

delegated. 


The  Executive  Committee. 
Art.  4.  All  matters  relating  to  the  general  welfare  of 
the  Board  or  the  agriculture  of  the  State,  as  well  as  all 
legislative  measures,  shall  be  referred  to  this  committee. 
It  shall  have  general  oversight  of  all  moneys  expended  by 
the  Board  or  under  its  direction,  or  taken  in  trust  or 
.donated  to  it,  as  well  as  of  all  accounts  and  records  of 
the  Board  ;  it  shall  also  have  general  oversight  of  the 
editing  and  printing  of  the  annual  report  and  all  other 
publications  of  the  Board,  and  shall  have  all  the  powers 
of  the  Board  not  otherwise  delegated  until  the  next  meet- 
ing of  the  Board,  and  shall  report  to  the  Board  at  the 
annual  meeting. 


The  Committee  on  Agricultural  Societies. 
Dutiesof  Art.  n.     All    matters    relating  to   the    exhibitions    of 

committee  on  f 

agncuiturai      agricultural  societies,  the  fixing  of  the  dates  of  the  same, 

societies.  °  7  o 

the  appointment  of  inspectors,  the  making  of  regulations 


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governing  the  exhibitions,  and  tlie  approval  of  premium 
lists,  shall  be  referred  to  this  committee,  who  shall  con- 
sider the  same  and  report  to  the  Board. 

The  Committee  on  Do:mestic  Animals  and  Sanitation. 

Art.  6.     All  matters  relating  to  domestic  animals  and  Duties  of 

'-'  committee 

the  sanitation  of  farms  and  farm  buildings  shall  be  referred   on  domestic 

.  animals  and 

to  this  committee,  who  shall  consider  the  same  from  time   sanitation, 
to  time,  and  report  to  the  Board. 


The  Committee    on  Gypsy  Moth,    Insects  and  Birds. 

Art.  7.  It  shall  be  charged  with  the  duties  of  the 
gypsy  moth  committee,  as  provided  for  in  chapter  210 
of  the  Acts  of  1891.  All  matters  relating  to  birds  and 
insects  shall  be  referred  to  this  committee,  who  shall  re- 
port to  the  Board  from  time  to  time. 


Duties  of 
committee  on 
gypsy  moth, 
insects  and 
birds. 


The  Committee  on  Dairy   Bureau  and   Agricultural 
Products. 

Art.  8.     All  matters  relating  to  products  of  the  farm   Duties  of 

,         1    .  1     n   T  ,.  -,    ,      ji  •  •   i  1         1     11     committee  on 

or  the  dairy  shall  be  referred  to  this  committee,  who  shall   dairy  bureau 
report  to  the  Board  from  time  to  time.     (See  chapter  I.,   cunurai 

, .    ,      -.   N  products. 

article  2.) 


The  Committee  on  Agricultural  College  and 
Education. 

Art.  9.  All  matters  relating  to  agricultural  education.  Duties  of 
lectures,  the  providing  for  institutes  and  public  meetings  agricultural" 
of  the  Board,  shall  be  referred  to  this  committee,  who  education. 
shall  have  general  oversight  of  the  work,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Board.  This  committee  shall  also  be  charged 
with  the  duties  of  the  Board  as  Overseers  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural  College,  as  provided  for  in  chapter 
20,  section  5,  of  the  Public  Statutes.  They  shall  visit  the 
college  from  time  to  time,  to  inspect  the  property,  observe 
the  methods,  extent,  and  character  of  the  instruction  there 
given,  attend  the  commencement  exercises  and  examina- 
tions, and  make  report  of  their  doings  and  observations  to 
the  Board,  with  any  suggestions  and  recommendations 
they  may  deem  proper,  as  prescribed  by  the  Governor  and 
Council,  May  12,  1886,  and  recorded  in  "  Agriculture  of 
Massachusetts,"  1888,  page  396. 


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Duties  of 
committee  on 
experiments 
and  station 
work. 


The   Committee   on   Experiments  and  Station  Work. 

Art.  10.  All  matters  relating  to  experiments  or  the 
Experiment  Station  of  the  State  shall  be  referred  to  this 
committee,  who  shall  report  to  the  Board  from  time  to 
time.      (See  chapter  I.,  article  2.) 


Duties  of 
committee  on 
forestry, 
roads  and 
roadside 
improve- 
ments. 


The  Committee  on  Forestry,  Roads  and  Eoadside 
Improvements. 

Art.  11.  This  committee  shall  be  charged  with  the 
duties  of  the  Board  of  Forestry,  under  chapter  255  of  the 
Acts  of  1882  ;  and  all  matters  relating  to  forest  fires,  the 
preservation  of  foi'ests,  reforestation  and  reservation  of 
public  lands  for  the  culture  of  forest  trees,  also  all  matters 
relating  to  roads  and  roadside  improvements,  shall  be 
referred  to  this  committee,  who  shall  consider  the  same 
from  time  to  time,  and  report  to  the  Board. 


Duties  of 
inspectors. 


Filling  of 
vacancies. 


Badges. 


Inspectors. 

Art.  12.  The  Board  shall  delegate  members,  who 
shall  be  known  as  inspectors,  to  visit  each  year  the 
exhibitions  held  by  the  different  agricultural  societies 
which  draw  State  bounty.  Each  inspector  shall  visit  the 
society  to  which  he  may  be  assigned,  observe  the  methods, 
character,  and  extent  of  its  exhibition,  inspect  the  prop- 
erty of  the  society,  and  make  report,  with  suggestions 
and  recommendations  concerning  the  society,  to  the 
secretary  of  the  Board,  who  shall  submit  each  report  to 
the  committee  on  agricultural  societies,  and  who  shall 
also  send  such  reports  to  the  secretary  of  each  society  for 
publication  in  the  local  paper  or  the  annual  report  of  said 
society.  If  such  inspector  be  unable  to  fill  the  appoint- 
ment, he  may  exchange  with  any  other  inspector ;  but, 
in  case  he  cannot  make  such  exchange,  he  shall  season- 
ably notify  the  secretary,  who  shall  appoint  a  substitute. 
If  no  inspector  appears  at  the  exhibition  of  a  society,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  delegate  from  that  society  to 
make  report  to  the  secretary  of  the  r>oard,  in  the  same 
form  as  is  required  of  the  inspector. 

Art.  13.  Members  of  the  Board,  when  attending  to 
their  duties  on  the  Board  or  as  inspectors  of  the  societies, 
shall  be  provided  with  a  badge  to  be  worn  while  in  the 
performance  of  their  duties. 


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CHAPTER   IV. 


Meetings  of  the  Board. 

Article  1.  The  Board  shall  meet  at  the  State  House, 
in  the  office  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  or  at  the 
Agricultural  College,  as  provided  for  in  chapter  20,  sec- 
tion 3,  of  the  Public  Statutes,  at  least  once  in  each  year, 
and  as  much  ofteuer  as  may  be  deemed  expedient.  The 
annual  business  meeting  shall  begin  on  the  Tuesday  pre- 
ceding the  first  Wednesday  in  February,  this  meeting  to 
be  known  as  the  annual  meeting.  New  members  shall 
take  their  seats  on  the  morning  of  the  second  day,  after 
which  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  shall  be  chosen. 
There  shall  also  be  held  an  annual  public  winter  meeting 
of  the  Board  for  lectures  and  discussions  at  such  place  in 
the  Commonwealth  as  the  Board  may  designate,  begin- 
ning on  the  first  Tuesday  in  December. 

Art.  2.  Special  meetings  may  be  called  at  any  time 
by  the  secretary,  with  the  consent  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee, or  at  the  written  request  of  seven  members  of  the 
Board.  Such  request  shall  be  made  to  the  secretary, 
who  shall  thereupon  give  notice  of  the  same,  stating 
therein  the  object  for  which  the  meeting  is  called. 

Art.  3.  Notice  of  all  meetings  of  the  Board  shall  be 
given  by  the  secretary  in  writing,  by  mail,  to  each  mem- 
ber thereof,  at  least  seven  days  prior  to  the  date  of 
meeting.  The  secretary  shall  also  give  due  notice  of 
committee  meetings  to  members  of  the  respective  com- 
mittees. 

CHAPTER  V. 


Regular 
meetinga. 


Annual 
meeting. 


Public 
winter 
meeting. 


Special 
meetings. 


Notice  of 
meetings. 


Admission  of  Delegates   and  Compensation   of   Offi- 
cers AND  Members  of  the  Board. 

Article  1 .     The  credentials  of  members  of  the  Board  Credentials  of 

delegates. 

shall  be  examined  by  the  executive  committee  on  the  first 
day  of  the  annual  meeting  ;  and  the  new  delegates  whose 
credentials  are  satisfactory  shall  be  admitted  to  the  annual 
meeting  on  the  second  day,  at  the  morning  session  of  the 
Board,  at  which  time  their  term  of  office  shall  begin. 

Art.  2.     "  No   member   of    the   Board   shall    receive  Compensa- 

,     tion. 

compensation  from  the  Commonwealth  except  for  personal 
expenses  when  engaged  in  the  duties  of  the  Board,"  as 
provided  for  in  chapter  20,  section  3,  of  the  Public 
Statutes. 


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Secretary, 
term  of  office 
and  com- 
pensation. 


Clerks,  com- 
pensation of. 


Art.  3.  The  term  of  office  of  the  secretary  of  the 
Board  shall  be  for  one  year,  beginuiug  with  the  fii-st  of 
July  followmg  the  election.  The  compensation  of  the 
secretary  is  $2,500  per  year,  and  at  the  same  rate  for  any 
part  of  a  year,  as  provided  for  in  chapter  184  of  the  Acts 
of  1883. 

Art.  4.  The  compensation  of  the  first  clerk  is  $1,600, 
as  provided  for  in  chapter  143,  Acts  of  1892  ;  and  the 
compensation  of  the  assistant  clerk  is  $1,200,  as  provided 
for  in  chapter  130,  Acts  of  1893. 


Quorum  of 
Board  and 
committees. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

Quorum. 

Article  1.  At  all  meetings  of  the  Board  eighteen 
members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  business.  At  all 
meetings  of  the  executive  committee  four  members  shall 
constitute  a  quorum.  At  all  meetings  of  other  standing 
committees  three  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 


CHAPTER  VII. 


Amendments 
and  notice  of 
meetings. 


Amendments. 

Article  1.  These  by-laws  may  be  changed  or 
amended,  and  additional  by-laws  may  be  adopted,  at  any 
annual  meeting  of  the  Board,  or  at  any  regularly  called 
meeting,  provided  notice  has  been  given  in  writing  to  each 
member  at  least  seven  days  before  such  meeting,  such 
notice  to  be  issued  by  the  secretary  of  the  Board,  stating 
the  change  or  changes  proposed. 


Order  of 
business. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 
Order  of  Business. 

Article  1.  The  business  of  the  Board  shall  be  con- 
ducted in  accordance  with  rules  used  by  deliberative 
bodies,  and  shall  be  transacted  substantially  in  the  fol- 
lowing order  ;  but  the  election  of  officers,  appointment  of 
standing  committees,  and  introduction  of  new  business 
shall  not  take  place  until  after  the  admission  of  new 
members  :  — 

1.  Reading  of  the  call  of  the  meeting. 

2.  Calling  of  the  roll  of  delegates  at  each  session. 

3.  Reading  of  the  report  of  the  last  meeting. 


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4.  Report  of    executive  committee  on  credentials  of 
members. 

5.  Appointment  of  special  committees. 

6.  Report  of  the  secretary. 

7.  Reports  of  committees. 

8.  Reports  of  inspectors  and  agents. 

9.  Any  unfinished  business. 

10.  Election  of  officers. 

11.  The  reading  of  papers. 

12.  New  business. 

13.  Appointment  of  standing  committees. 

14.  Assignment  of  inspectors. 

15.  Adjournment. 


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RULES  AND  RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR  THE 

AGRICULTURAL  SOCIETIES  WHICH 

DRAW  STATE  BOUNTY. 


Amount  of 
bounty,  how 
predicated. 


Financial 
returns. 


The  following  rules  and  recommendations  are  founded 
upon  the  Public  Statutes,  chapter  114,  section  6,  which 
reads  as  follows  :  — 

A  society  which  neglects  in  any  year  to  comply  with  the 
laws  relating  thereto,  or  with  the  regulations  of  the  Board  of 
Agriculture,  shall  not  be  entitled  to  bounty  in  the  year  next 
succeeding. 

Rule  1 .  Every  incorporated  agricultural  society  which 
was  entitled  to  bounty  from  the  Commonwealth  before 
the  twenty-fifth  day  of  May  in  the  year  1866,  aud  any 
agricultural  society  which  is  the  only  one  incorporated 
within  the  limits  of  the  county,  aud  every  other  such 
society  made  competent  by  special  enactment,  whose 
exhibition  grounds  and  buildings  are  not  within  twelve 
miles  of  any  other  society  drawing  bounty,  may  receive 
annually,  in  the  month  of  October,  a  bounty  of  $200 
from  the  State  for  $1,000  raised  by  contribution  of 
individuals  and  put  out  at  interest  on  public  or  private 
security,  or  invested  in  real  estate  for  its  use  and  accom- 
modation, as  capital,  and  it  may  draw  an  additional  sum 
of  $200  for  each  $1,000  so  invested  ;  but  in  no  case  shall 
a  society  draw  more  than  $600  as  bounty  in  one  year, 
nor  more  than  it  has  paid  out  in  the  previous  year  for 
premiums.  (See  Public  Statutes,  chapter  114,  sections 
1,  7  and  11  ;  also  Acts  of  1890,  chapter  297.) 

Rule  2.  The  president  and  treasurer  of  each  incorpo- 
rated society  claiming  bounty  must  specify  under  oath  the 
sum  so  contributed  and  put  at  interest  or  invested,  and 
then  held  so  invested  or  well  secured  as  a  capital  stock, 
and  also  such  other  returns  of  their  financial  affairs  as  the 
Board  of  Agriculture  may  require  on  a  blank  to  be  fur- 


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nished  by  the  secretary  of  the  said  Board  to  the  treasurer 
of  su(3h  societies.  This  statement  shall  be  filed  annually, 
on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  January,  in  the  office  of 
the  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture.  (See  Public 
Statutes,  chapter  114,  section  2  ;  also  Acts  of  1891,  chap- 
ter 124.) 

Rule  3.      No  incorporated  asrricultural  society  which   Mortgage  or 

.  .  '  Bale  of  real 

has  received  or  which  may  receive  State  bounty  shall  sell  or  estate. 
mortgage  the  whole  or  any  part  of  its  real  estate  without 
an  affirmative  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  such 
society  present  and  voting  at  a  meeting  duly  called  for 
that  purpose  ;  and  the  vote  must  afterward  be  approved 
by  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  after  due  notice  to 
parties  interested  and  a  hearing  thereon.  (See  Acts  of 
1890,  chapter  274,  section  1.) 

Rule  4.     "  The  amount  of  money  to  which  a  society  is   Amount  of 

;  "^  "^  bounty. 

entitled  for  any  3'ear  shall  be  ascertained  by  the  certificate 
last  filed  b}'  it  with  the  secretary  of  the  Board  ;  but  a 
society  sliall  not  receive  bounty  in  any  year  if  the  State 
Board  of  Agriculture,  having  first  given  such  society  full 
opportunity  to  be  heard  in  relation  to  its  financial  affairs 
and  general  management,  so  determines  by  a  two-thirds 
vote  of  the  whole  number  of  its  members  present  at  its 
annual  meeting."  And,  in  the  event  of  the  Board  with- 
holding the  bounty  from  any  society,  the  secretary  of  the 
Board  must  notify  the  Treasurer  of  the  Commonwealth  on 
or  before  the  first  day  of  September  in  such  year.  (See 
Public  Statutes,  chapter  114,  section  3.) 

Rule  5.     Each  society  shall  annually  make  a  return  of   Premium 

•^  •'  returns. 

its  doings,  "  embracing  a  statement  of  the  expenditure  of 
all  Tnoney,  specifying  the  nature  of  the  encouragement 
proposed  by  the  society,  the  objects  for  which  its  premiums 
have  been  offered,  and  the  persons  to  whom  they  have  been 
aiva7'ded,"  together  with  a  statement  of  which  premiums 
have  been  paid  from  the  State  bounty.  This  statement 
shall  be  signed  by  its  president  and  secretary,  and  filed 
with  the  secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  on 
or  before  the  tenth  day  of  January.  (See  Public  Statutes, 
chapter  114,  section  0.) 

Rule  6.     No  part  of  the  State  bounty  shall  be  paid  in   Residents  of 

,  .  -,  ^      I        state. 

premiums  to  any  persons  who  are  not  residents  of  the 
State. 

Rule  7.     All  moneys  paid  in  premiums  to  parties  not 
residents  of  the  State  shall  not  be  considered  in   predi- 


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Sciilc  of 
points. 


Experts. 


Grade  or 
native  bulls. 


Live  stock. 


Colors  of 
premiums. 


Drawing 
tests. 


Statement  to 

accompany 

entries. 


eating  the  amount  of  State  bounty  the  society  shall  re- 
ceive. 

Rule  8.  Each  society  drawing  bounty  shall  adopt  the 
scale  of  points  established  by  the  Board  of  Agriculture  in 
the  awarding  of  premiums  on  live  stock,  vegetables,  and 
fruits,  to  the  end  that  there  shall  be  uniform  modes 
throughout  the  State.  (See  Public  Statutes,  chapter  114, 
section  16.) 

Rule  9.  In  judging  all  live  stock,  fruit,  and  vegeta- 
bles, each  society  shall  employ  an  expert  or  experts. 
These  expert  judges  shall  be  instructed  to  appoint  a  time 
for  listening  to  appeals  and  of  giving  the  reasons  for  their 
decisions,  if  called  for  ;   but  their  decisions  shall  be  final. 

Rule  10.  No  societ}'  receiving  a  bounty  of  the  State 
shall  bestow  any  premiums  or  gratuities  on  grade  or  na- 
tive bulls. 

Rule  1 1 .  All  live  stock  entered  for  exhibition  shall 
be  kept  on  the  grounds  until  3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of 
the  first  day. 

Rule  12.  All  societies  receiving  the  bounty  of  the 
State  'shall  be  required,  immediately  after  the  awards  of 
the  several  committees  are  made,  to  cause  to  be  attached 
to  each  animal  or  article  to  which  a  first  premium  has 
been  awarded  a  blue  ribbon  or  card,  with  "  First  Pre- 
mium" printed  thereon  ;  and  to  each  animal  or  article  to 
which  a  second  premium  has  been  awarded,  a  red  ribbon 
or  card,  with  "  Second  Premium  "  printed  thereon  ;  and 
to  each  animal  or  article  to  which  a  third  premium  has 
been  awarded,  a  white  ribbon  or  card,  with  "  Third  Pre- 
mium "  printed  thereon,  —  to  the  end  that  a  uniform  prac- 
tice may  be  followed  by  all  the  societies. 

Rule  13.  In  drawing  tests  of  cattle,  horses  or  mules 
or  in  speed  tests  of  horses,  no  excessive  whipping  or  other 
abuse  of  animals  shall  be  allowed.  In  drawing  tests  with 
the  drag  each  team  shall  not  be  allowed  to  exceed  three 
trials  and  not  to  exceed  five  minutes,  after  the  team  is 
properly  hitched  to  the  load,  shall  be  allowed  for  any  one 
trial. 

Rule  14.  In  awarding  prizes  for  bread,  butter  and 
cheese,  cooked,  preserved  and  canned  fruits  and  vege- 
tables, field  crops,  and  experiments,  a  written  statement 
must  accompany  each  entry,  setting  forth  how  each  was 
prepared,  the  crop  raised,  or  the  experiment  conducted  ; 
in  short,  giving  a  brief  history  of  the  same. 


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Rule  15.     The  followinsj  is  established  as  the  standard   Weight  of 

»  crops. 

by  which  crops  shall  be  estimated  by  weight  b}^  the  several 
societies  :  Indian  corn,  in  the  cob  as  taken  from  the  field, 
shall  be  rated  as  80  pounds  to  a  bushel ;  a  bushel  of  Indian 
corn,  shelled  and  dry,  shall  be  56  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  r3'e, 
56  pounds  :  a  bushel  of  barley,  48  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of 
buckwheat,  48  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  oats,  32  pounds  ;  a 
bushel  of  wheat,  60  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  potatoes,  60 
pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  carrots,  55  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of 
onions,  52  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  sugar  beets,  60  pounds  ;  a 
bushel  of  mangel- wurzels,  60  pounds ;  a  bushel  of  ruta- 
bagas, 60  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  parsnips,  45  pounds  ;  a 
bushel  of  common  or  English  turnips,  50  pounds ;  a 
bushel  of  white  beans,  60  pounds  ;  a  bushel  of  peas,  60 
pounds. 

Rule  16.    Each  agricultural  society  receiving  the  bounty   Farmers' 

"  .  ,  institutes. 

of  the  Commonwealth  shall  hold  within  its  limits  not  less 
than  three  farmers'  institutes  each  calendar  year ;  and  the 
Board  shall  render  all  the  assistance  in  its  power  to  make 
such  institutes  interesting  and  profitable.  The  secretary 
of  the  Board  shall  also  attend  these  institutes,  so  far  as  is 
compatible  with  the  duties  of  his  office  ;  and  he  shall  pro- 
vide lectures  for  the  institutes,  so  far  as  the  appropriation 
for  this  object  will  warrant.  But  he  shall  not  be  author- 
ized to  pay  more  than  one  lecturer  for  each  institute. 
Each  society  may  hold  more  than  three  institutes,  if  it  so 
desires  ;  and  the  secretary  of  each  society  shall  be  required 
to  certify'  to  the  holding  of  each  institute,  on  blanks  fur- 
nished by  the  secretary  of  the  Board. 

Rule  17.     Each  society  must  print  in  its  transactions  List  of 

members. 

the  names  of  the  officers  for  each  year  succeeding  their 
election,  and  once  in  three  years  the  list  of  its  members, 
with  their  post-office  addresses. 


RECOMMENDATIONS   OF   THE   BOARD. 

1.  The  societies  of  the  State  drawing  bounty  are  hereby  state  pre- 
notified  that  it  will  be  permissible  for  them  to  offer  a  part 
or  all  of  the  State  bounty  as  special  or  State  premiums,  to 
be  awarded  on  cards  bearing  the  coat-of-arms  of  the  State, 
which  the  secretary  of  the  Board  will  furnish  on  request ; 
and  it  is  recommended  and  hoped  that  the  societies,  so  far 
as  they  are  able,  will  try  this  plan  with  some  or  all  of  the 
classes  to  which  the  State  bounty  is  applicable. 


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Live  stock. 


Nomenclature 
of  fruits. 


Farmers' 

institutes. 


2.  The  Board  recommends  that  all  live  stock  entered 
for  exhibition  be  kept  on  the  grounds  through  the  entire 
exhibition. 

3.  The  Board  recommends  that  the  various  societies  in 
the  nomenclature  of  fruits  at  their  exhibitions  and  in  their 
publications  conform  to  the  catalogue  of  the  American 
Pomologieal  Society. 

4.  The  Board  recommends  and  earnestly  requests  that 
each  agricultural  society,  at  its  annual  meeting,  fix  the 
dates  at  which  it  will  hold  the  several  institutes  required 
under  Rule  16,  and  the  subjects  it  desires  to  have  dis- 
cussed, and  as  soon  as  possible  notify  the  secretary  of  the 
Board  if  it  desires  assistance  in  the  procuring  of  lecturers. 


Dates  for 
holding  fairs. 


Agricultural  Exhibitions. 

The  time  for  holding  the  fairs  of  the  agricultural  socie- 
ties receiving  bounty  from  the  State  of  Massachusetts 
shall  be  as  follows  :  — 

Amesbury  and  Salisbury,  fourth  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday 
in  September. 

Attleborough,  fifth  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember, 

Barnstable  County,  second  Tuesday  after  the  first  INIonday  in 
September. 

Berkshire,  second  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Blaekstone  Valley,  fourth  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Bristol  County,  fourth  Tuesday  after  the  first  INIonday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Deerfield  Valley,  second  Thursday  after  the  first  INIonday  in 
Si^etember. 

Eastern  Hampden,  third  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Essex,  thii'd  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  September. 

Franklin  County,  third  Thursday  after  the  first  INIonday  in 
September. 

Hampden,  third  Thursday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Hampshire,  fourth  Tuesday  after  the  first  INIonday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Hampshire,  Franklin  and  Hampden,  third  Tuesday  after  the 
first  Monday  in  September. 

IlighUind,  first  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Hillside,  fourth  Tuesday  after  the  first  INIonday  in  September, 


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Hingham,  fourth  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  September. 

Hoosac  Valley,  third  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tembei". 

Housatonic,  fourth  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Marshfield,  second  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Martha's  Vineyard,  third  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
SeiJtember. 

Massachusetts  Horticultural,  fifth  Tuesday  after  the  first  Mon- 
day in  September. 

Middlesex  North,  second  Thursday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Middlesex  South,  second  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Nantucket,  first  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Oxfoi'd,  thii'd  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  September. 

Plymouth  County,  third  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Spencer,  third  Thui'sday  after  the  first  Monday  in  September. 

Union,  second  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  September. 

Weymouth,  fourth  Thursday  after  the  fii'st  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember. 

Woi'cester,  first  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  September. 

Worcester  East,  second  Thursday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Worcester  North,  third  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Worcester  North-west,  fifth  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September. 

Worcester  South,  second  Thursday  after  the  first  Monday  in 
September.     - 

Worcester  County  West,  fourth  Thursday  after  the  first  Mon- 
day in  September. 


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